Vincent in Arles 

(1889)

<i>Despite a pessimistic diagnosis, Van Gogh recovered and returned to the Yellow House on 7 January 1889. He spent the following month between hospital and home, suffering from hallucinations and delusions of poisoning. In March, the police closed his house after a petition by 30 townspeople (including the Ginoux family) who described him as "le fou roux" (the redheaded madman); Van Gogh returned to the hospital.
Paul Signac visited him twice in March; in April Van Gogh moved into rooms owned by Dr Rey after floods damaged paintings in his own home. Two months later, he left Arles and voluntarily entered an asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
Around this time, he wrote, "Sometimes moods of indescribable anguish, sometimes moments when the veil of time and fatality of circumstances seemed to be torn apart for an instant." </i>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

The Courtyard of the Hospital at Arles

April, 1889 


Oil on canvas
73.0 x 92.0 cm. 


Winterthur: Oskar Reinhart Collection 'Am Römerholz'